LightEdge Solutions has turned on the juice at the SubTropolis Technology Center, a new data center campus housed completely within SubTropolis, the 5-million-square foot underground business complex in Kansas City. Read More

The data bunker industry is growing, as more customers seek out ultra-secure underground hosting for their IT operations. At last week’s Data Center World conference, several experts discussed the advantages and challenges of underground data centers, and offered tips for evaluating a data bunker. Read More

A new data center in Kansas City is going underground, with support from two high-profile investors. LightEdge Solutions, which is owned by Qwest founder Phil Anschitz, will add a regional data center at SubTropolis, the underground business park operated by the Lamar Hunt family. Read More

In this video, Iron Mountain’s Nicholas Salimbene provides a tour of The Underground, the company’s remarkable 145-acre facility within a limestoen cave in Pennsylvania, and the process of building a custom data bunker for tenants. Read More

Iron Mountain is entering the data center business in a bigger way. The company has announced plans to build and lease data centers, starting within the Underground, its 145-acre records storage facility located 220 feet underground in a former limestone mine in Pennsylvania. Read More

Land is never more dear than in global financial capital. Economic development officials in Hong Kong are pursuing an unusual solution: make more real estate by creating underground caves and bunkers that can be used as homes for new data centers. Read More